Web 2.0
Richard MacManus and Joshua Porter contemplate the future of the web in the latest issue of digital-web
Flash Workshop at Nebraska ESU 16
Here's the "handout" and required files for the flash workshop!
tips and hacks
Here are the resources that I referenced this morning regarding coldfusion/html development...
A gamer's look at the new iMac G5
How's the new iMac G5 measure up for gaming? Peter Cohen takes a look
Blogs vs Wikis
I'm exploring the differences between blogs and wikis and am a little confused as to why there isn't more collaboration between the two models. Perhaps there is something about wikis that I'm just not understanding, but the biggest thing that I just can not figure out with them is how one is to manage the front page. Most wiki's that am finding are using blog-like formats but are not using blog software to do it.
Adam Curry: Getting Sirius
NY Times: "Adam Curry will produce and be host of a four-hour program every weekday starting May 13 on Sirius Satellite Radio." Argh! This satellite radio thing is really starting to get me frustrated. I will be getting a XM radio in the mail soon and I'm very excited about that. I can't wait to start listening to Sox games on WEEI, the way they are meant to be heard.
News: Macromedia expands Breeze conference capabilities
Macromedia Inc. on Monday announced the availability of Breeze 5, a new version of their Web conferencing and collaboration software designed to work hand in hand with Macromedia's ubiquitous Flash technology. Breeze 5 touts myriad enhancements including improved content-sharing capabilities for Mac users.
Weblogg-ed: Youths, News and TMI
As youth have gotten into the idea of blogging, some bad trends have started emerging. Will talks about blogging vs journaling.
CSS Reboot
I'm sad that I didn't read or hear about this before today, but there is a project on the web encouraging designers to redesign their site's CSS for May called CSS Reboot. There are some wonderful designs...
Wiki's on MacOS X
Interested in installing your own wiki on OS X? Here's one of the best set of instructions I've seen yet on how to do it.
Opera CEO Swims
Opera's CEO, Jon S. von Tetzchner, made a promise to swim from Oslo (where the company is based) to the United States if the new Opera 8 browser was downloaded over a million times in it's first four days. Much to his surprise, it passed that mark.
Steve Banning Biography
Steve Jobs's review of his biography: Ban it (CNET News.com)
Tiger New Features
Daring Fireball is keeping an updated list of new features in Tiger. Lots of sites are doing something similar to this but this list has some pretty unique items. An example is the new ability in Tiger to select discontinuous text or columns of text. I'll let you go there to read the details...
NETA CSS Files
For anybody that might be interested. I have decided to post the files that I used during my session on cascading style sheets yesterday afternoon at the NETA spring conference. There are included here as a zip file that you can expand and proceed to play around with if you wish. The presentation itself is also here. Please be patient with these while they download as my server uplink is not very fast.
Apple - Mac OS X Downloads
Apple has also redone their third-party software downloads area and it now includes tiger-specific things like Dashboard widgets, Automater Actions and Spotlight Plugins.
Don't like mail.app's new look?
Cafe Fighter is a new application that will get rid of what it consider's the new ugly buttons and make the whole application a little more tiger-looking.
NETA Friday CSS Session Followup
Thanks again to all that stuck around for my CSS Session on Friday. Here are the resources that I said I would post.
The Digies
Apple has published videos done by nebraska students on their website.
.Mac Updated
The .Mac site has received a tiger-inspired, much-needed update.
Today is the day!
Apple releases Tiger at 6:00 this afternoon (I'm not sure which timezone) :-)